Amor Jesu dulcissime (Giacomo Benincasa)
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- Editor: Burkard Rosenberger (submitted 2023-09-24). Score information: A4, 10 pages, 1002 kB Copyright: CC BY NC SA
- Edition notes: Edition Santini.
General Information
Title: Amor Jesu dulcissime
Composer: Giacomo Benincasa
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: Basso continuo
Manuscript 1833
Manuscript 1854 in SANT Hs 1218, no. 68
Description: Known from nineteenth century manuscript sources. One, copied by Johann Kaspar Aiblinger in 1833, claims its contents are from 1609.
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Original text and translations
Latin text
Amor Jesu dulcissime, / quando cor nostrum visitas,
pellis mentis caliginem / et nos reples dulcedine.
Quam felix est quem satias, / consors paternae dexterae,
tu vere lumen patriae, / quod omnem sensum superat.
Splendor paternae gloriae, / incomprehensa bonitas,
amoris tui copiam / da nobis et praesentiam.